I understand your feeling about being tired from very stressful dreams. When I have too many nights like that, it makes me not want to go to sleep.

My friend (also an M.D.) says the trazodone I take for sleep increases my dreams.
It's easier to remember the problematic dreams, but sometimes I have very humorous ones. (Most recent one was that I went to a high-end restaurant and they had a little monkey for sale. I bought him and he had "fine dining" manners and ate in the restaurant with me). Sometimes sharing your dreams helps. My sister and I often do that, usually be email. I'd be glad to hear about your dreams. :)


I can't give up the trazodone - it's worked better than any of the more habit-forming drugs.

It's been said that dreams are a way we reorganize all the input to our brains. If you can, make it a point to meditate on something wonderful and joyous for a few minutes every day.

If you have dreams, at least I hope they are pleasant.

I clicked on this the second I saw the title. I have bad dreams so much that it has become normal. If I go a couple of nights without nightmares or one of those never ending dreams, I want to throw a party. Many nights I don't want to go to sleep. I dont have the physical dreams like you do regularly but I have had them enough to know how frustrating they are. I've had nightmares, bad dreams, and "devil dreams" for years now off and on but finally got frustrated enough to buy a book on them at Barnes and Noble this past weekend. Since most of them were dream interpretation and the majority were hokey, I just got the Dreams for Dummies one, lol. I do very very often have dreams where I'm fighting with someone, or they are fighting with me, or being as hateful as you can imagine anyone to be. I do think I have these dreams whether or not I am on meds.

I don't think I was helpful to you in the slightest, I just wanted you to know that you are not alone! I am going to poke around in my book to see if I can find something more helpful than my ramblings :)

Some pain medications can cause vivid dreams.
I use mirazation and that gives me very vivid dreams, like i am their not dreaming.

Hello Friends ~

You know, even though I hate for any of you too be experiencing the things you are, it is so reassuring for me to be able to come on here and see a title like this!

I do not experience nightmares per se, it is more very real dreams. I have occasionally experienced a nightmare or two, my husband was watching t.v. one night when I feel asleep and I had the most horrid nightmare that giant bees were flying at my face! He was worried because he said it looked as though I was having a seizure. That scared me because I know these meds we take can do funky things to re wire our brains!

Luckily, my dreams are usually not of that nature but rather they are so real I cannot tell when I wake up if the things that happened all night in my dreams did actually occur or if they were just a dream! I think it is because I normally sleep on either side but because my legs ache so much, I lay on my back and try to sleep and I have never been able to sleep laying on my back...because I have bad dreams! Thus the viscous cycle continues!

I would take a sleeping aid but hubby works a stretch of night shifts over a two week period every three months, and I absolutely will not take anything that will conk me out! I need to know that if our 10 year old son needs his mom in the middle of the night I can respond. It is the same during the day, quite often after an 'afternoon' or night shift hubby will sleep until noon or later. I get up and get our son ready and drive him to school, and there are mornings I should be coming home and napping for an hour or two but I cannot relax until hubby is up and about. I worry that our son might phone from school needing me and I will not hear the phone! Hubby gets upset with me because then I usually get busy with something (once he is up an about) and miss a nap but I am dragging my butt all day!

Crafty

nothing worse than feeling more tired than when you went to bed! when I was on anti-depressants I had very vivid dreams. It happened while on and for couple months after going off of paxil and zoloft. I don't know what state you are in but I have found a small bit of medical cannabis 2-4 hrs before bed helps me sleep better than anything and no weird dreams. good luck!

I had dreams like this for years too. One day I was prescribed Valium for my spasticity but it had never worked before for me so I didn't even bother taking them. But I always read the pamplhets that come with them (like from Rite Aid) and lo and behold it said one of the problems it's prescribed for is bad dreams. I didn't want to be on yet another one of these medications but I happened to know that Benadryl was chemically related to Valium. So I started taking 2 Benadryl at bedtime and have not had a single of those dreams since! I asked my doctor if taking an antihistamine every day could be harmful (I was thinking more of allergies, etc. - but it certainly couldn't be any worse than most prescription medicines) and he said it would be fine. I seriously urge you to try this and see if it helps the dreams. It worked like a miracle drug for me.

many sleeping aides have this as a side affect. also sleep walking and night terrors. Does this happen when you do not take meds for sleeping? if not maybe you should try something different. hope it gets better for you when i took sleep aides i had horrible night terrors that seemed sooooo real.

I too have the most horrific nightmares. Some of the replies here might explain them, though. Will read the pamphlets on the meds. Don't usually do that.
Thanks
Olwyn

yep,i do through it all the time,first i was diagnosed with sleep apthnea--due to the dreams keeping me awake.but then i started going through my so passing away and now back surgery.i'll tell ya,they think they got a drug for anything.tell ur family dr about these dreams it can really get to ur person life.,good luck :)

I went yesterday to Pain Managment follow up and explained this problem...he asked when they started and I said February...I started Ambien 5mg in August.

I do NOT take this med every night...The nights I do not take it I stay up till 2-3am then pass out from exhaustion and no bad dreams...he said the same thing already posted that Ambien can cause night terrors etc...

So he gave me a sample pack of Rozerum. I am going to start another post about medication and medicare rx companies no paying for meds...but I think they would not cover this for me.

I took one last night, got up at 7:30AM and no nightmares and feel sorta refreshed! I am sore because of the wonderful trigger point injections I got ...they are worth it tho!

Thanks All...I have so missed your company and I loves ya!

i sometimes have nightmares, scary, i often have dreams about teeth and them being loose or falling out, dream book says im not trusting God or im afraid of gettine old! I pray before i fall asleep, sometimes helps. Taling about sleeping ot lack of, do yall wake up numerous times in pain? im so sick of it, i think the meds wear off? perc and norco.

Yes! I wake up from pain...only allocated 3 norco a day and 15 extra a month so every other day I CAN wake up and take an extra...heck of a way to live! We are with you in spirit